Grades K-8
How do you teach and assess the Content Standard Indicators?
Content Vocabulary
K-8
Instructional Activities for Political Systems
K-3 4-5 6-8
Port of Baltimore Lesson Plans
Sultana Projects – John Smith Unit
How do you incorporate the teaching of reading in Social Studies?
Sample Social Studies Lesson
Grade: 3 5 8
How do you use historical investigations in social studies instruction?
Steps in an historical investigation
Sample historical investigations
Grade 3-5
Sweet Land of Liberty - Can the actions of individuals bring about social and political change? [MS WORD || PDF]
Grade 4
Indentured Servitude
Grade 4-5
Calvert the Raven: The Battle of Baltimore - How am I connected to those in the past? [MS WORD || PDF]
Charles Carroll of Carrollton's Purchase of English Goods
The First Citizen: Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Our Children Can Soar - Can an individual make a difference in history? [MS WORD || PDF]
What Were They Thinking?
Grade 5
I Declare!
Grade 6
Nubia: A Rival of Egypt?
Grade 7
Alexander the Great: Defining "Great"
Grade 8
Age of Progress: The Transcontinental Railroad
Middle School
Evidence of the First Emperor's Reign
High School
Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation
Jewish Immigration to Maryland [MS WORD || PDF]
Audio interviews
Bruce Van Sledright discusses how kids learn historyMarcie Taylor-Thoma discusses historical investigations
Jon Harper discusses his classroom investigations
